VLAD'S CLOSE!

PLANE LIGHTNING STRIKE

Flybe plane travelling from Manchester to Amsterdam diverted back after being hit by LIGHTNING

DRONE DISASTER DODGED

Air disaster narrowly averted in London after drone nearly collides with passenger plane near The Shard

“Obviously everyone wakes up pretty fast when that happens. The pilot announced we were making a ‘precautionary landing due to a technical issue’.

“It was 15 minutes from the first we realised to landing at Novosibirsk. But the approach and landing were normal. Strangely quiet though as obviously we didn’t know what the issue was.

“Since then we have waited for seven hours in the departure lounge and now at a hotel where we’ll stay until a new flight arrives to take us on at midnight.”

Michael said Siberia was “cold” and “white”, adding: “I think people are more glad to be alive than annoyed at being redirected. To be honest it makes me glad that as a Christian I know where my final destination will be and it’s much better than Siberia.”